Word: bovril
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...small. They were particularly impressed with the Queen and one admitted later that King George "was certainly attractive." Most of them were startled to find their British counterparts as well-dressed as themselves. "I saw only one or two curtains," said Denise Lawson-Johnston, of the New York Bovril people, in wondering tones...
...British Isles. For more than a week, news of the Beveridge Plan has monopolized space on the newsboys' placards, and every influential newspaper in the land has approved it at least in principle. Even in the Conservative "Times" war dispatches have been shoved back between the ads for Bovril and Player's Navy Cut. His Majesty's Stationery Office is swamped with requests for copies of the complex 300,000 word text Goebbel's propaganda mill has been forced by skillful B.B.C. publicity to ridicule rather than ignore...